AHC: Tennis, #3 Sport

Rules for the challenge:
Post-1899 (1900s+)
As the title says, have Tennis become the number 3 sport in the world, if possible - ho higher!

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Maybe keep it as part of the Summer Olympics programming from 1924-1984, rather than remove it? More people could watch it that way, and maybe it could gain more followers that way?
 
Maybe keep it as part of the Summer Olympics programming from 1924-1984, rather than remove it?
That is one, other must be bigger emphasis in individual sports over collective one so giving Boxing,Wrestling and Martial arts a boost too, maybe just Baseball and either football(asosiation one) are the team sports by default, kill gridiron football in their cradle and make emphasis in individuals sports, make a tennis craze during the interbellum and post war too, maybe the soviets are not banned from competitions and they adopt tennis too and open competitions to all.
 
Interesting. I've found some sites that say it's 4, with field hockey being number 3.

That's also interesting. That site I found had field hockey fairly low down. I suppose it is a fairly popular sport in much of the Commonwealth and Europe so in terms if player nunbers it's possible.
 
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